After 33 days in detention, Agba Jalingo, Journalist and rights activist will be arraigned by the Nigerian Police on Wednesday, September 25th at the Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross Rivers state.
While speaking with newsmen, James Ibor who is Jalingo’s lawyer said that a date has been picked by the Police for arraignment at Court 2 of the Federal High Court in Calabar on Wednesday.
WITHIN NIGERIA reliably gathered that Jalingo is being charged with conspiracy to overthrown the Cross River State Government, treasonable felony and terrorism; charges which pressure groups have described as laughable.
According to reports, he was invited for an interview by the police in Cross River State on allegations that his article about the Cross River State Microfinance Bank where he requested for the whereabouts of the N500m approved and released for the floating of the financial institution.
The Cross River State Government has been fingered as being behind his ordeal, an allegation the spokesperson for Governor Ben Ayade, Christian Ita, has continuously denied.
However, Chairman, Association of Cross River Online Journalists, Darlington Edem, has called on Nigerians to appear in court for the session in a show of solidarity.
Also, a former Chief Prosecutor in the state, who is also in Jalingo’s legal team, Attah Ochinke, said, ‘a series of symposia in honour of the detained journalist is in the works in a bid to promote the campaign for citizens to hold their leaders accountable.’
